Nervy Ethel's Week as a Home Demonstrator in Chicago Chronicle
The diary records Nervy Ethel's string of failed job tries and a new modeling gig in a drugstore window. She endures ridicule from Mamie Curtis and a church preacher, contemplates convent life, and quits after a manager proposes a new product display including a foot plaster and elastic bandage.
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Ike
Phi
Mamie Curtis
Willy
Mame Curtie
Chadrley
Tie
Charley
Mike
Chicago Chronicle
Good Roads Show Value of Local Road Overhaul
A Wayne county Indiana correspondent notes that highway experts estimate U S road and farm product losses reach 1 billion annually with 690 million wasted through bad roads. In Wayne county a district improved by Dr N F Canaday after years of neglect, introducing grading drainage and screened gravel, producing clearer roads with steady maintenance and cost efficiency.
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United States
Legion
Wayne County
Ind
The
Prairie Farmer
N. F. Canaday
Canaday
The Science of Living by Dr George F Butler
A summary of Dr George F Butler's health advice from How to Live Alma Springs hospital superintendent urges balance in eating and digestion. He stresses appetite guides harm and good nutrition over mere quantity and outlines three body functions: digestion waste removal and new material supply. He advocates regular elimination, water, exercise, cold baths, massage, gentle laxatives if needed, and finishing with optimism and kindness.
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George F. Butler
Alma Springs
Lastrarium
Alma
Mich
California
Reflections on Virtue and Envy From Uncle Dick
A Madison Journal excerpt quotes Uncle Dick on how stinginess, malice, and the urge for revenge impede prosperity. It argues no person is truly rich enough to malign others, and aging should bring humility rather than pride in infirmities, noting universal vanity in human ideas.
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Irs
Uncle Dick
Madison Journal
Australian Experiment Grants Land For Village Settlements
The government offers land and support for groups of men and their families to form village settlements in Australia. Settlers operate on individual merit with two years of guidance from overseers. A usable house becomes a public hall or school, and initial provisions including rations and farming stock are supplied as a repayable loan. Some women demand burglar-proof vaults for halos, a humorous aside.
Apparel and the Man: First Impressions and Success
The article argues clean attire and personal grooming boost business success. It asserts a well groomed, tidy appearance earns respect and improves prospects with employers and peers, noting that clean shoes, white teeth, and neat linen matter. It emphasizes that “cleanness is next to godliness” and favors aiming to look like a “dude” over a tramp to gain favorable reception in business.
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God
Isandhlwana remembered in the African dawn
Reports recount the 1879 battle where Cetewayo’s Zulus destroyed a British column, with 800 soldiers killed and plunder including wagons oxen firearms and tens of thousands of rounds. Burial parties later recovered 500 bodies as evidence of the brutal clash.
Flea troupe sparks chaotic party ending in mystery
An afternoon party features a troupe of performing fleas as entertainment. The event ends with a loud disruption as the impresario searches for a flea reportedly lost in the crowd, while a gray pawn-suited lady passes by, prompting apologetic moments and light relief.
Well meant farewell from Morner and Grouch
Morner chides Spowlr as he departs to a place from which no traveler returns. Grouch agrees that Spowlr cannot return to lecture, pronouncing relief at the absence of his speeches.
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Morner
Spowlr
Grouch
A Comment on Women and Blame from Uncle Eben
A character voices a view that some women demand control and the right to blame husbands if outcomes fail, reflecting a regional dialect and social humor through Uncle Eben’s remark.
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Eben
Open Dome Fish Catcher From Philippine Islands At New York Aquarium
An open dome shaped fish catcher built from thin native wood strips is exhibited at the New York Aquarium. About two feet high and two feet wide, its curved ribs form a lattice with a wooden hoop at the top and a tight band near the base. Islanders use it to trap bottom feeding fish by clapping the device over them and reaching inside through a top opening.
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Philippine Islands
New York
We Make Travel Easy Five Trains Daily
Advertising copy lists five daily trains via the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe from Colorado to major cities including Kansas City St Joe Chicago Galveston El Paso City of Mexico. It mentions reduced rates and a Salt Lake City address for C F Warren GA AT and 8 F Ry at 411 Dooly Block Utah.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Colorado
Kansas City
St. Joe
Chicago
Galveston
el Paso
City of Mexico
Warren
Dooly Block
Salt Lake City
Utah
Ishmael of the Gutter A London outdoor man and lone wanderer depicted
The piece portrays Ishmael as London's outdoor man and last remnant of the roaming primitive, living among barrows and animals yet bound to city life. It contrasts him with rural gypsies, noting his guarded traditions and capacity for silence or vivid storytelling, as he remains a roaming, self reliant figure.
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London
Ishmael
Man in asylum boasts clever swearing mania
A visitor tours an insane asylum where an inmate, highly intelligent, reveals his fixation on cursing. He jokes about writing obscene words around and claims he can stay ahead of the staff by scrawling curse words on the visitor’s back.
Fee Worth Waiting For
A young David B. Henderson faced hard times as a fledgling lawyer in an estate case with large interests. An heir offered to settle his fee with $2,500 in $500 bills, asking if that was enough. Henderson, with calm poise, replied Peel off another one and we will call it square.
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David B. Henderson
Henderson
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